02-09-2010, 05:56 AM
Quote:I haven't consulted the Greek for the rest of the passage, so I wouldn't go drawing fine distinctions from the grammar of that translation... I'll see if I can get a hold of Burstein's edition, which features the original Greek.
....I wasn't too concerned with the finer points of 'interpreting' the original Greek, merely that put together with the other points I referred to, that seems to be the sense of it........
"dulce et decorum est pro patria mori " - Horace
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
(It is a sweet and proper thing to die for ones country)
"No son-of-a-bitch ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country" - George C Scott as General George S. Patton
Paul McDonnell-Staff
